Overall verdict on this one, disappointed. It is light and fluffy, entertaining, and agreeably soppy in parts, but that’s all. I always thought that the point of YA books was to portray the young characters as heroes in their own right, not to portray them as passionate but bumbling proto-adults who will be so much wiser and cleverer when they grow up. I think it will do very well with the comfort reading crowd, but it isn’t really my sort of book.